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Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...think it is! This free course, Religious diversity: rethinking religion, introduces you to a selection of the vast variety of religious beliefs and practices in Britain today. Having some familiarity with religion and belief is increasingly required to make sense of issues of local, national and international importance. The course will introduce you to issues and skills...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...thinking about the same subject have said in previous years. Professional knowledge is sometimes explicit but often people know more than they can articulate. They know with their hands and their bodies. It is usually expressed in action. It is communal, in as much as one person may contribute a particular part of a whole process. Researching, writing and thinking all...
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Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...system of analysis...Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground: 1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas - Mozart wrote nineteen compositions with the title ‘Sonata’ for the fortepiano, works spanning from his teenage years (the Sonata in C, K279, was written at the age of fifteen) to two years before his death (the Sonata in D, K576, dates from 1789). Although they...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)
Science, Maths & Technology

"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)

...systems should allow the cavity to be filled rapidly. Vents and risers must be located in such a way that the unfilled portion of the casting cavity is at atmospheric pressure, to allow the gases formed in the initial stages to escape to atmosphere. Knock-out is easy, since removal of the vacuum allows the sand to flow out of the box. When casting cast iron, or other...
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Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging

...system contains the workpiece on all sides, which eliminates the tensile stresses developed in conventional hot forging. The high rate of working leads to heat generation to compensate for radiation losses, so that multiple passes can be used to produce a forging in a single heat. This leads to substantial energy and labour savings compared with conventional forging....
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Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...system of racial segregation across the southern states of the USA, and question how successful this struggle for racial equality was. The four OpenLearn courses are adapted extracts from the Open University course A113 Revolutions. Use of racial language and terms Some of these courses deal with topics involving racial issues, such as the Civil Rights Movement in the...
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Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students
Education & Development

Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students

...systems which may be used in online tuition. This will reduce the anxiety dyslexic students sometimes experience at the first tutorial when they have to deal with a new environment, subject, teacher and peers. It may be helpful to run a brief session (30 mins) aimed at introducing the students to the online tools. The focus should be on audio, microphone, emoticons, chat...
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